Exile in Portales

Take The Times ( UK ) lager quiz (in the right sidebar on this page )…and see how much you really know about beer. I scored 7/10. And I ...

…and a few folks think it should have been longer…like forever. First there was this sort of sour grapes carping from Diana West : As for...

If you’ve been by Mushy’s place today, you’ve seen this. But it’s just too danged good NOT to post here at EIP. Perfect. Just frick...

In what’s turning into a semi-regular event here at EIP, here’s today’s Cannon AFB update, courtesy (once again) of the Air Force Associati...

A few days back this week , blog-buddy Kris posted a story (with pics!) about Wreaths Across America. Kris had a special connection wit...

You may have read elsewhere that the USAF has grounded… twice …its entire fleet of 442 F-15s (with the exception of the “E” model) following...

Here are the first few pages of the 1996 Chevrolet Impala SS sales brochure…and the window sticker from the SS I owned and loved. As alway...

From the Air Force Association’s Daily Report— an e-mail newsletter that hits my in-box every week day morning without fail — three items ab...

TSMP in Oxford , England …sometime in 1980. Dang. This is fun!

It's here... and a day early, at that. What's here, you ask, Gentle Reader? Why…the new scanner! So much for that "serious p...

So…the winter storm warning for the High Plains has been cancelled. No ice storm today… I think. But the potential still exists; it’s r...

This kinda-sorta just in from The National WX Service: Winter Storm Warning. Harding county-far northeast plains- Conchas Lake/Guadalupe co...

Purloined from Phlegmmy : I’m not really a Guinness kinda-guy, indulging once in a Blue Moon and only in winter…but. Is this a great a...

Further, further on the Iran NIE… Chap has been doing some serious thinking and linking on the subject . I’ve read a lot about the NIE o...

From last year's post ...which I cannot improve upon, today: It’s said — quite often and by many, many people — that 9/11/2001 “changed...

…a re-supply of cigars (brought by "The Brown Truck of Happiness," as Phlegmmy calls it) and a new humongous ashtray, which was...

Via Blog-Buddy Kris … A lengthy list of stuff; I've done the bits in bold. Feel free to reciprocate, but…no pressure, eh? 01. Bough...